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Originally posted by fatz2 at 30-4-2008 10:08 PM 
April 30, 2008
Brunei Navy chief visits S'pore
Commander of the Royal Brunei Navy Colonel Joharie Bin Haji Matussi ...
berbeza benar cara duduk orang melayu & cina... kekeke |
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Reply #422 Browneyes's post
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kat berita harian suratkhabar, ada gambo Jalaludin Hassan.. dlm cerita "Mak Nyah".. adoii.. gambo dia dgn makeup dia..adoii.. dah jadi adik2..keke. |
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Attempt to smuggle year's largest haul of obscene DVDs foiled
By Gamar Abdul Aziz, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 01 May 2008 0034 hrs
modified floor board
modified fuel tank
SINGAPORE: Officers from the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) have foiled an attempt to smuggle in the year's largest haul of suspected uncensored VCDs and DVDs.
The officers found a total of 3,775 discs and over 10,000 sticks of duty-unpaid cigarettes in a Singapore-registered car on 29 April.
The items were discovered when the car was checked after it arrived at the Woodlands Checkpoint. The discs and contraband cigarettes had been hidden in a modified fuel tank and floorboard.
The potential customs duty on the cigarettes was around S$3,900 and the GST involved came up to S$350.
The 45-year-old male Singaporean driver was immediately placed under arrest. He claimed that this was his first attempt at smuggling and that he had been promised S$200 if he delivered the items successfully.
He also revealed that he had rented the vehicle at a cost of S$1,300 for a month.
The man and contraband cigarettes have been referred to Singapore Customs for further investigations. The discs have been handed over to the police.
If convicted, first time offenders of cigarette smuggling can be fined up to a maximum of 20 times the amount of duty evaded.
Repeat offenders can be jailed for up to two years, as well as being fined.
And under the Copyright Act (Cap 63), those found guilty of selling or distributing fake products can be fined up to $10,000 per article (or up to a maximum fine of $100,000), and/or to a jail term up to 5 years.
Under the Films Act (Cap 107), those who are found guilty of importing obscene films, can be fined not less than $1,000 for each film imported (but not exceeding $40,000), and/or to a jail term up to 12 months.
Repeat offenders can be fined not less than $2,000 for each film imported (but not exceeding $100,000), and/or to a jail term up to 2 years. - CNA/vm |
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May 2, 2008
Wanted: Rogue cop
# Interpol alert out for Mark Koh
# Deserted the police force and has since been sacked
# Being investigated by CPIB
# Three lawsuits by banks;made bankrupt
By Teh Joo Lin & Chong Chee Kin
A SACKED senior police officer is wanted by his former employers for fraud and appears to be on the run.
Mark Koh Kian Tiong, a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) detective who last held the rank of Assistant Superintendent, deserted the Singapore Police Force under a shroud of mystery last year.
At that time, he was under investigation by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), sources told The Straits Times.
Now, the 35-year-old is a wanted man internationally.
Koh is listed under Interpol's wanted list for fraud, although no details on his alleged offence are available.
The police would not say if the fraud was linked to his work as an investigator in unlicensed moneylending.
A red notice - the same alert level used for escaped terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari - has been issued against him to Interpol's member nations.
This means that any of these 186 countries can arrest him on the spot and extradite him to Singapore.
It is not clear if Koh has fled the country.
However, a police spokesman did clear up one possible concern - Koh was not in possession of his service revolver when he disappeared.
Last Friday, a notice in the Government Gazette said that Koh was deemed to have 'deserted' and had been struck off the force.
Under the law, an officer is deemed a deserter when he leaves his duties with 'the intention to remain permanently absent without leave or of not returning to his duty'.
This offence is rare and carries a maximum jail term of 10 years and a $5,000 fine.
Koh, who was sacked on Aug 13 last year, appears to have been in financial difficulties. He owed about $29,000 to three banks and was declared a bankrupt in January after he failed to pay for his car loan.
His $10,500 debt to Malayan Banking arose from a hire-purchase agreement for a Mitsubishi Lancer car.
With interest, he had to pay off $64,000 over the 10-year loan period. He kept up with monthly instalments for only 13 months before defaulting.
Koh did not respond to the lawsuits which were filed late last year, after he stopped showing up for work.
When The Straits Times went to his last known address in Punggol, the HDB flat appeared to have been unoccupied for some time.
A layer of dust caked the metal grille gate and layers of fliers filled the planter box outside the door. More leaflets rested on the gate.
Two legal documents - pertaining to his bankruptcy case - were stuck to his door.
Neighbours said that they did not know the occupants. One of them said that a housing agent had brought two men to view the five-room unit recently.
Koh married a Chinese national in January last year. It was his second marriage.
Those who knew him said that he was a friendly and popular man who got on well with his colleagues, including the junior officers.
One colleague said Koh did not have a reputation for gambling or other vices, but he had problems controlling his finances.
'He would always go out with the junior officers whenever they asked him to. And when you go out, you spend money,' he said.
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CASE survey lists cheapest supermarkets, 160 budget items
SINGAPORE : A survey by the Consumer Association of Singapore (CASE) has found significant price rises for some essential items.
The price of one popular brand of rice rose 44 percent in a two-month period, between March and April this year. The price of another brand of cooking oil jumped 56 percent in the same period.
On the flip side, the survey also highlighted over 160 low-priced or budget items.
The CASE grocery survey covered 21 essential items in seven supermarket chains across Singapore.
Making up the basket of items were bread, canned pork luncheon meat, canned sardines, canned baked beans, canned mushrooms, cooking oil, eggs, instant noodles, rice, salt, sugar, condensed milk, milk powder, baby diapers, toothpaste, shower foam, soap, shampoo, dishwashing detergent, clothes detergent and toilet rolls.
Based on the supermarkets surveyed by CASE officials and volunteers on April 30, NTUC FairPrice had the greatest number of lowest priced items - 10.
This was followed by Sheng Siong at Tekka Mall with seven, and Giant and Shop N Save with four.
Except for FairPrice, which has a standard pricing policy across all its outlets, CASE found that prices for the same item could vary from branch to branch within the same supermarket chain.
Not surprisingly, housebrands form the bulk of these cheapest brands. Thus CASE has advised consumers to switch to housebrands.
It said housebrands and other low-priced labels can be substantially cheaper than their branded counterparts, which could cost twice as much.
Due to rapid price changes, CASE intends to conduct regular surveys, and supermarkets will not be informed in advance.
Yeo Guat Kwang, President, Consumers Association of Singapore, explained: "If we say that we are going to do it monthly, then they may be aware that this is the time that we are checking.
"So they may just adjust the price for that one day or two. And after the information is released, the consumers may not be able to - based on our tips - go get the best value on their money."
The survey's results will be available on CASE's website from next week. - CNA/ |
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May 2, 2008
Free on-the-go wireless access for StarHub broadband users
By Alfred Siew
STARHUB raised the bar on Friday on Internet deals by giving its home broadband subscribers free wireless access on the go as well.
The first such deal here, it may push rivals SingTel and MobileOne (M1) to roll out more competitive offerings.
New subscribers to StarHub's MaxOnline cable modem service, which gives them broadband access from home, will now get free access with the mobile wireless MaxMobile service as well.
The home service starts from $59.92 a month, while the on-the-go offering used to cost about $36 a month.
With the new deal, users will get a free modem to access the 3.5G wireless service, which gives download speeds of 7.2 megabits per second (Mbps) islandwide.
To log on to, they simply plug in the wireless modem to their laptops while on the go.
The offer is also open to existing MaxOnline subscribers who do not have a contract.
Mr Adit Harinasuta, head of StarHub services and solutions, said it was aimed at getting more users on both services.
The move is likely to provoke a response from rivals SingTel and M1, which have been locked in a fierce fight for customers in a market where broadband penetration is nearly 80 per cent.
However, neither one offers such a bundled deal yet. SingTel sells its asymmetric digital subsciber line (ADSL) service, which uses the phone line to carry data to homes, and its 3.5G on-the-go service separately.
M1, meanwhile, does not have a home broadband service, but offers its 3.5G service as an alternative to SingTel and StarHub. |
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May 2, 2008
2004 MURDER OF S'POREAN IN THE US
Dead for 3 years, yet her dad did not know
Now, cleaner, 65, may be a beneficiary of late daughter's assets
By Teh Joo Lin
SETTLED IN THE US: Ms Tan Nee Nee (in red top) with colleagues at a party in 2004. Her husband, Mr Thomas Hui, is on her right.
FOR over three years, Mr Tan Eng Quee had no idea that one of his daughters had been brutally beaten and strangled to death in the United States.
It was only last month, when his sister told him that his name had appeared in a newspaper notice, that he found out about it.
The 65-year-old had not heard from his daughter, Ms Tan Nee Nee, for more than 20 years after divorcing his wife. Now, the cleaner, who earns $800 a month, appears to be a potential beneficiary of his late daughter's assets.
On March 18, a notice placed by local law firm Ravi Lim & Partners appeared in The Straits Times' Classifieds.
It asked Mr Tan to contact the firm about his late daughter's estate.
Only then did he realise that his daughter had been killed.
In November 2004, Ms Tan, 35, who lived and worked in New Jersey with her husband, was found murdered in her home.
Her husband's best friend, Teo Sheng Kwee, then 43, was convicted of her murder and jailed for 58 years.
Although the murder and subsequent trial made headlines in the local media, Mr Tan said he did not read the newspapers.
Mr Tan, who lives alone in a two-room flat in Commonwealth, said in Hokkien: 'I didn't even know Nee Nee had gone to the US. I don't know where my wife or any of my children are.'
Two decades ago, Mr Tan split from his wife because 'we couldn't get along'.
At that time, the couple had four young children - three girls and a boy. Ms Tan was the second oldest.
While Mr Tan took custody of Ms Tan's two sisters, with Ms Tan and her brother going to his wife, all four children later went to live with their mother, he said.
'It's good they went to find their mother,' he said with a sigh. Mr Tan explained that he was an unlicensed taxi driver then and was seldom home to take care of his children.
As time passed, he lost touch with them as he went about his own life.
News of his daughter's death has also made him think of his family.
He said wistfully: 'I've wondered where they are and how they are doing. It's not that I don't want to, but I don't know how to find them. Their mother must be having a good life.'
He remembered Ms Tan as an 'honest, well-behaved and hardworking' child.
He tried to find a photograph of her when she was a child, but could not. 'I feel sad that she died - to grow up, then get beaten to death like that.'
Ms Tan's husband, Mr Thomas Hui Soon Fook, who had hired the law firm to place the newspaper notice, was in Singapore recently but did not want to be interviewed.
It is unclear who the potential beneficiaries of Ms Tan's estate are, but she was reportedly in good financial health at the time of her death.
Ms Tan, who drove a Lexus, earned about US$100,000 (S$135,900) a year as a software engineer.
The Ngee Ann Polytechnic graduate won a scholarship at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1995 and graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering.
She and her husband owned two properties that cost about US$500,000 each.
The home she was murdered in was a three-storey house in the upscale Lighthouse Bay neighbourhood of Middlesex County.
Ms Tan also had a 40 per cent stake in her husband's two restaurants in Manhattan, New York. The couple did not have any children.
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May 3, 2008
Ex-addict: CNB officer pressured me into having sex
Waitress alleges she didn't resist advances for fear of problems with her urine sample
By Khushwant Singh
IN COURT: Phua Jun Yang, 25, is accused of showing leniency in his supervision of the woman's urine tests in exchange for sexual favours. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
A RECOVERING drug addict said in court yesterday that she was pressured into having sex with a police sergeant who worked at the centre where she went for urine tests.
The 23-year-old waitress said Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer Phua Jun Yang courted her after they met at the Ang Mo Kio police station last year.
'I did not resist his advances because he was a CNB officer and I was a drug addict,' she said yesterday during the opening day of Phua's trial in a district court.
'I was afraid that if I did not do what he wanted, my urine samples may have problems.'
The 25-year-old Phua is facing allegations that he showed leniency in his supervision of the woman's urine tests in return for sexual favours.
Phua is also accused of contravening the Official Secrets Act (OSA) on Jan 4 last year. Prosecutors say he gave the woman inside information about the activities of a drug dealer.
The pair met on Jan 3 last year, the woman testified yesterday. She was fresh from serving a year at a drug rehabilitation centre for ketamine consumption and had to report for thrice-weekly urine tests to ensure she remained drug-free.
Phua, then attached to the CNB, was manning a computer at the station.
After her urine test, he met the woman outside and asked for her cellphone number.
Phua then sent her text messages asking if he could be her boyfriend.
The woman described him as fierce and said she did not want to offend him.
Two days after their first meeting, Phua took her to his Hougang flat for sex, she said. They later took his dog for a walk before having dinner at a foodcourt.
The woman started crying when Phua's lawyer Vinit Chhabra asked why she did not tell Phua that she felt pressured into the relationship.
Phua treated her with respect and concern as if she were his girlfriend, Mr Chhabra said.
Phua told The Straits Times that he was suspended from the police force without pay last year.
For corruption, he could be jailed for up to five years and fined up to $100,000.
For an OSA offence, he could be jailed for up to two years and fined up to $2,000.
A charge of obtaining sexual favours from another woman, also under drug supervision, and another charge of violating the OSA were stood down. So were three disciplinary charges of getting the cellphone numbers of three other women under drug supervision.
The charges that were stood down can be brought against Phua later at the discretion of the Attorney-General's Chambers.
The trial is expected to last six days.
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May 3, 2008
3 abused cats dead at Pasir Ris St 21
The bodies of the three cats have been sent to the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority for a post-mortem. -- PHOTO: SPCA
THREE cats died after suffering abuse at block 253 Pasir Ris St 21 on Friday night.
The SPCA was alerted to the incident by a member of the public who said the cat and its two kittens may have been coated with thinner or acid. One of the kittens was reported to have died.
When the SPCA arrived, both kittens have died and 'blood could be seen at the mouth and noses', the SPCA said on Saturday.
'A broken bottle labelled 'thinner' was found nearby but there was no smell evident on the cats although their fur was wet,' the SPCA said.
The adult cat was brought to a veterinarian and eventually put down 'due to her extremely distressed state'.
The bodies of the three cats have been sent to the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority for a post-mortem.
The SPCA is appealing for witnesses and is offering a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the abuser.
Anyone with information should call the SPCA at 62875355, extension 9.
The police are also investigating. |
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May 3, 2008
IAC beefs up measures to tackle rising number of inhalant abusers
By Mavis Toh
The CNB recently said that the number of inhalant abusers caught rose to 644 last year, from 403 in 2006. -- PHOTO: NP
TWO strikes and you're in.
A stint in the Anti-Inhalant Abuse Centre (IAC) is what a glue sniffer, caught a second time, can expect.
The centre - gearing up to handle the rising number of glue-sniffers - has unveiled measures to beef up its programmes.
These will emphasise tailored treatment, after-care support and relapse prevention.
The IAC, located at Selarang Park Drug Rehabilitation Centre, deals specifically with inhalant abusers. They are sent there by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) after they have been caught a second time.
The CNB recently said that the number of inhalant abusers caught rose to 644 last year, from 403 in 2006 and an all-time low of 120 in 2005. At its peak in 1987, 1,112 abusers were caught.
In 2007, there were 39 inmates at the IAC. In the first four months of this year alone, 24 abusers have already been admitted.
Abusers will go through an interview with one of the centre's 10 counsellors upon admission.
From this month, a counsellor will assess the abuser's risks and needs to tailor a suitable treatment plan, with a standardised assessment tool. |
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May 4, 2008
Cigarette peddlers show up in Geylang
Working in teams, they do their illegal trade in back alleys, side lanes
By Aw Cheng Wei
The latest batch of illegal cigarette sellers are from China and Vietnam. They hawk their wares openly in the Geylang area, sometimes hailing passing motorists and motorcyclists to sell their non-duty paid stash. -- ST PHOTOS: WANG HUI FEN
Peddlers from China and Vietnam are hawking bootleg cigarettes openly in the Geylang area, sometimes in broad daylight, and even stopping cars to sell their stash.
The cigarettes are smuggled in on board cargo ships which dock at Jurong Port, the peddlers claimed.
One seller, who said he was Vietnamese and spoke in halting English, said his shipborne supply comes from Indonesia. His teammate added in Mandarin: 'The ships come in daily and we pay on collection.'
Judging by the figures he gave, it is a lucrative business. The peddlers buy their contraband at about $2 for a pack of 20 sticks and resell them to street buyers. A 20-stick pack of Texas 5 costs $4.50 while a pack of Marlboro Red or Marlboro Menthol costs $5 or $6, half of what a duty-paid pack of Marlboro costs here.
The appearance of the Geylang peddlers comes on the heels of Indonesian peddlers who smuggled in bootleg cigarettes in small boats and sold them to passers-by in Woodlands, Yew Tee and Changi.
Police cracked down on these Indonesian smugglers in January.
Six of the seven peddlers The Sunday Times approached in Geylang last week were Vietnamese. The seventh was a Chinese Singaporean who looked no older than 18.
There are peddlers from China as well but The Sunday Times team did not manage to speak to them.
The Geylang peddlers appear to work in teams of two sellers and two lookouts. The stash is hidden nearby and only samples are shown to buyers.
One peddler handles the money; the other, the goods. The name of the game: a quick deal. Meanwhile, the lookouts have their eyes peeled for the authorities.
The buyers seemed to be mostly workers from China and India. Each deal was made in less than a minute.
Most of the drivers of cars and taxis hailed by the peddlers also bought the duty-unpaid cigarettes.
The peddlers operate in the back alleys from Lorong 6 to Lorong 20, as well as in the lanes and on the roadside. Last Thursday, 23 such illegal sellers were spotted.
One buyer, Mr Zhu Songren, 34, a worker from China, said: 'The cigarettes here are half the price of those from shops. The taste is also stronger.'
Under the law, buyers face hefty composition fines of up to $5,000.
Sellers are fined not less than 10 times the amount of customs duty evaded under the Customs Act. A jail term may also be imposed.
An Immigration and Checkpoints Authority spokesman said the ICA will be looking into the Geylang sales. The Singapore Customs said it has not received any specific intelligence that the bootleg cigarettes are coming in through Jurong Port.
Since January, Singapore Customs has conducted regular raids and nine major operations in Geylang. These saw the arrest and prosecution of 51 peddlers. Another 197 people were caught and fined for buying contraband cigarettes from these sellers.
From January to April this year, more than 31,000 packets of contraband cigarettes were seized in the Geylang area.
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Singaporean on derailed KTM train claims there was confusion after incident
By Patwant Singh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 04 May 2008 2136 hrs
SINGAPORE: Confusion reigned when the KTM train derailed near Seremban Saturday afternoon, said a Singaporean who was onboard.
Mr Hong Ngar Choong said the Express Rakyat train with 210 passengers, jumped track around 3.30pm after pulling out of the Seremban station.
He said help was not immediately available and he made his own way back to Singapore after getting out.
The incident resulted in the death of the driver and injury to 12 passengers, including six Singaporeans.
The injured were ferried to a hospital where they received outpatient treatment.
Mr Hong, who was with a group of seven Singaporeans, told Channel NewsAsia he was not injured.
"There was a fair bit of confusion inside our coach, and then there were many opinions - whether to stay in the coach or get out of the coach. Because the coach was slanting, so some were afraid that if we were to move to one side, the whole coach may just roll down," he said.
"We waited for a while but there were no instructions from the so-called KTM authorities, so the passengers decided to just carry their own luggage and... climb down the coach." - CNA/ac |
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Singapura : 5 Mei 2008
JOHOR INGIN PIKAT LEBIH RAMAI PELANCONG S'PURA
Projek Iskandar Malaysia dijangka tingkatkan lagi kedatangan pelawat
RAMAI mungkin beranggapan bahawa mereka tidak akan berpeluang berdiri di penghujung selatan tanah besar Asia.
Namun, kawasan yang dikatakan paling selatan di seluruh benua Asia itu sebenarnya terletak hanya sekitar 45 minit dari Link Kedua Tuas, iaitu di Pontian, Johor.
Kedudukan 'penghujung dunia' itu ialah di Taman Negara Johor Tanjung Piai, yang merupakan hutan paya bakau pantai seluas 5.26 kilometer persegi.
Selain berpeluang mempelajari dengan lebih dekat mengenai kehidupan alam semula jadi, para pengunjung juga pastinya tidak akan melepaskan peluang menempa nama sebagai antara mereka yang pernah berdiri di tapak yang dipromosikan sebagai yang paling hujung di benua Asia itu.
Pengurus taman negara itu, Cik Annie Majanil, berkata bilangan pengunjung telah meningkat dari tahun ke tahun.
'Tahun lalu sekitar 35,000 pengunjung berkunjung ke taman ini. Sebahagian besar merupakan warga tempatan, dengan para pelancong asing membentuk sekitar 20 peratus,' ujarnya.
Namun berbanding dengan sekitar 23 juta pelawat ke Johor setiap tahun, bilangan yang mengunjungi taman itu boleh dikatakan terlalu kecil.
Bagaimanapun, taman yang dipenuhi pelbagai kehidupan semula jadi, termasuk haiwan liar, berpotensi menjadi satu daya tarikan penting di Johor.
Usaha taman negara itu untuk meningkatkan popularitinya di kalangan para pelancong seolah-olah menggambarkan cabaran yang juga dihadapi sektor pelancongan Johor, iaitu bagaimana untuk merancakkan lagi industri pelancongannya, yang dianggap tidak serancak tempat-tempat lain seperti Melaka dan Pulau Pinang, yang lebih terkenal sebagai destinasi pelancongan.
Pengarah Pejabat Johor, Lembaga Penggalakkan Pelancongan Malaysia, Cik Noridah Kamarudin, akur bahawa Johor ketinggalan dari segi bilangan kedatangan pelancong, berbanding destinasi popular lain di Semenanjung Malaysia.
Turut membimbangkan ialah kegagalan Johor menarik bilangan pelancong Singapura yang besar, di mana Johor lebih dianggap warga Singapura sebagai hanya 'pintu masuk' ke tempat-tempat peranginan lain seperti Melaka, Genting Highlands dan Pulau Pinang, kata Cik Noridah.
Ini dirumitkan lagi kerana tiada pengumuman lanjut yang lebih terperinci mengenai rancangan untuk sektor pelancongan di koridor pembangunan ekonomi Johor, Iskandar Malaysia, yang sebelum ini dikenali sebagai Wilayah Pembangunan Iskandar (IDR).
Namun pejabat pelancongan Johor tidak berdiam diri dan telah mula mengorak langkah untuk menggiatkan lagi sektor pelancongannya.
'Kami melihat Johor sebagai negara yang 'dipintas' kerana para pelancong Singapura akan ke Melaka tanpa berhenti di sini, misalnya. Peningkatan bilangan pelancong Melaka jelas datang dari Singapura dan juga Negeri Sembilan.
'Jadi strategi kami ialah untuk bekerjasama dengan Melaka dan saya telah berhubung dengan rakan sejawatan saya, tentang bagaimana kami dapat menggalak mereka tinggal di Johor untuk sekurang-kurangnya satu malam sebelum mereka ke Melaka. Itulah antara promosi yang akan kami lakukan,' kata beliau.
Menurut Cik Noridah, 40 peratus daripada 23 juta pelawat ke Johor setiap tahun merupakan warga Singapura. Namun, itu tidak bererti semua warga Singapura yang ke Johor boleh dianggap pelancong.
Pihaknya juga telah mengadakan pertemuan dengan ejen-ejen pelancongan Singapura baru-baru ini.
'Dalam dialog yang diadakan, kami telah mengenal pasti beberapa isu yang boleh diperbaiki, agar kami boleh menarik lebih ramai pelancong dari Singapura, seperti memperbaiki perkhidmatan feri ke destinasi-destinasi seperti Desaru, misalnya,' kata Cik Noridah.
Matlamat pejabatnya ialah untuk meningkatkan bilangan pelancong Singapura sebanyak tiga kali ganda dan ini dapat dicapai, malah dijangka mampu diatasi apabila projek pembangunan Iskandar Malaysia dibangunkan sepenuhnya.
'Cadangan Jualan Unik (USP) Johor selain ekologi dan alam sekitar ialah pulau-pulau kami. Tapi paling penting ialah kami adalah negeri yang paling terdekat untuk warga Singapura berbanding negeri lain.
'Kami percaya jika kami membangunkan infrastruktur yang betul, terutamanya pengangkutan, kami dapat menandingi negerinegeri lain,' kata Cik Noridah.
Justeru, Johor kini giat mempromosikan produk-produk pelancongan yang sedia ada, termasuk tempat peranginan yang sebelum ini popular dengan warga Singapura seperti Kota Tinggi dan Desaru, ujarnya.
Ia juga kini rancak mempromosikan pelancongan ekologi seperti Taman Negara Tanjung Piai dan program tinggal di kampung atau homestay yang ditawarkan di 14 perkampungan di serata Johor.
Menurut Pengerusi Program Homestay Johor dan AgroPelancongan Tanjung Piai, Encik Abdul Aziz Abdul Samad, selain menikmati suasana hidup di kampung, pelbagai aktiviti lain turut diatur sebagai daya tarikan kepada pelancong, termasuk dari Singapura.
'Program-program lain ialah seperti sukan tradisional, seperti tarik tali, tarik upih, menganyam ketupat dan pelancongan ke kelong.
'Pelancongan ke kelong ini terletak dua kilometer di laut. Permandangan sekitarnya menarik. Bagi pelawat-pelawat yang menginap di sana, mereka berpeluang memancing ikan. Itulah yang menarik,' kata Encik Abdul Aziz.
Program homestay, yang sejauh ini telah menarik pelancong-pelancong sejauh Jepun, Korea Selatan, Australia, Eropah, dan Singapura, akan terus dikembangkan.
Menjelang hujung tahun ini, enam lagi kampung di `Johor akan menyertai program itu.
Yang jelas, produk-produk pelancongan di Johor sedang giat dipertingkatkan dan dijangka terus dirancakkan dengan terbinanya projek Iskandar Malaysia di Johor.
Di Taman Negara Tanjung Piai misalnya, kata Cik Majanil, kemudahan di situ akan dipertingkatkan, dengan sebuah dewan lebih besar akan dibina untuk menampung jumlah pelawat yang semakin meningkat.
Satu lagi tarikan di Pontian, yang turut mendapat perhatian warga Singapura, ialah Muzium Nanas Johor, yang dijangka ditingkatkan demi memenuhi keperluan pelancongan.
Dengan projek rel antara Singapura dengan Johor masih merupakan satu kemungkinan, ia dijangka menjadi satu lagi mangkin bukan hanya untuk sektor pelancongan, malah untuk pembangunan ekonomi Johor amnya.
'Rel MRT akan pasti menambah bilangan pelawat Singapura. MRT akan menjadi cara pengangkutan yang paling mudah kerana semua ingin mengelakkan kesesakan di Koswe.
'Ia pasti akan membantu merancakkan lagi sektor pelancongan Johor,' kata Cik Noridah. |
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Cik Noridah.....
- kan kerajaan dah habaq rel ketapi s'pore - johor tu tak jadi.....
- cik noridah mai lah masuk porum cari... pi kat bod current issue.... pi baca topik Penyakit kuku tangan dan mulut... apa porumer kat situ kondem s'pore....
- cik noridah..., banyak statement cik noridah dah back dated....
Originally posted by fatz2 at 5-5-2008 07:29 AM 
Singapura : 5 Mei 2008
JOHOR INGIN PIKAT LEBIH RAMAI PELANCONG S'PURA
Projek Iskandar Malaysia dijangka tingkatkan lagi kedatangan pelawat
RAMAI mungkin beranggapan bahawa mereka t ... |
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Originally posted by fatz2 at 4-5-2008 10:28 PM 
Singaporean on derailed KTM train claims there was confusion after incident
By Patwant Singh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 04 May 2008 2136 hrs
SINGAPORE: Confusion reigned when the KTM train ...
kesian seh... sib baik tak ramai yg mati... |
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Category: Negeri & Negara
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Post time 30-4-2008 10:40 PM
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